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All creations posted on this blog are copyright Carol Byrne. Please, play nice and don't copy my creations and claim them as your own for publication on your blog, other web forums/galleries or magazine publications. Please ask for my permission, or give credit where credit is due and post a link back to my blog. Thanks!

Thank you Marcia!

The photograph in my blog header was taken by my friend Marcia who graciously allowed me to use it in my blog after I ooooh'd and aaaah'd over it last summer. Thanks so much, Marcia!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

I should be working, working, working. Instead, I am playing, playing, playing. Hmmmmmmmmm.....

A quick one here: New challenge today over at Simplicity's blog. One layer card using home decor as our inspiration. Have had these Unity stamps for a while now and figured today is as good a day as any to put them to use. Colored with Copics....nothing fancy...just quickly colored and added a simple black line to ground the floating lamps.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

During my hiatus of doing the one-layer Wednesday challenges change occurred. Life became a bit hectic for Susan over at her Simplicity blog to continue posting the challenges on a weekly basis. Then Jennifer Styles of Styles Ink came along to save the day.....she and Susan now alternate Wednesdays in hosting the OLW challenges.

It's Jennifer's Wednesday this week and she came up with the theme of Ages and Ages. We need to make a one layer "age" card. Perfect! I was lacking an idea for my last birthday card of the month which was for my brother in law. After rumaging around, I came up with this:

I really liked the dry embossing around last weeks image in the OLW 31 challenge, so I decided to do it again! I like how this turned out. Image is from Inkadinkadoo and the sentiment is from Impress Rubber Stamps. Love that sentiment....I usually use it on the insides of birthday cards, but it worked really well for this particular challenge.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Yeah! I FINALLY got to do another challenge! And a really, really simple one at that!
The One Layer Wednesday challenges over at Simplicity's blog finds this past week's mission to go back to our roots. How did we start stamping/card making???? Inquiring minds want to know.

Years before I started scrapbooking which eventually worked its way into addictive, smaller, quicker gratifications known as cards, one of my sister's-in-law showed me how she made quick and simple cards by heat embossing every stamped image in gold embossing powder. I was mildly interested and quickly dismissed it. I worked long hours and barely had enough time to make meals, do laundry, spend time with my husband and once in awhile clean the house. But, when I finally had the time to venture into card making, I remembered the gold embossing technique and that's what I started with. Ooooooh! The magic!

Here's my very simple, gold embossed card, along with a modern twist....an added dry embossed frame around the sentiment made with my long rectangle nesties.

Simple, eh?
The sentiment is from Penny Black and that sparkly gold embossing powder is by Judikins...twinkle gold, I believe. LOVE that stuff. So glittery, without the need to use glitter! I also used 110 lb. Classic Crest natural white cardstock....its heavy weight and thickness gives such a nice and distinct embossing from the nesties without cutting through the cardstock. Yum!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

....here ya go!
The card you've been requesting I post on my blog.
The card that was inspired by YOUR card. Thanks for the inspiration! :-)

What a quick and simple card! Cardstock is PTI Simply Chartreuse with a Cosmo Cricket overlay of dots from Garden Variety (LOVE those dots....must get more!). Created the big scallops with a border punch from EK Success. Balloons are from scraps using the Martha Stewart balloon punch with some crochet thread from my stash. Just popped up and added "strings" to the bottom three for dimension. Sentiment is from Hampton Art that I just recently found at Michael's.